Thomas hipwell



(No Model.)

T. HIPWELL. WIOK RAISEB FOR ARGAND LAMPS.

No. 488,968. Patented Dec. 27, 1892.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS HIPWELL, OF LONG ISLAND CITY, ASSIGNOR TO THE MANHATTAN BRASS COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

WlCK-RAISER FOR ARGAND LAMPS.

SPECIFICATION forming partpf Letters Patent No. 488,968, dated December 27, 1892. Application filed October 4, 1892. Serial No. 447,785. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.- extending upwardly and provided with out- Be it known that I, THOMAS HIPWELL, a turned claws to enter the wick, and such citizen of the United States, residing at Long upwardly projecting spring tongues are bent Island City,in the countyof Queens and State backwardly so that when raised above the 5 of New York, haveinvented an Improvement upper end of the air tube A the claws 5 are in Wick-Raisers for Argand Lamps, of which sprung inwardly sufficiently to allow the wick the following is a specification. to be slipped around the wick raising tube In Argand lamps a cylinder has been fitted with facility; but in order to prevent the wick to slide upon the central air tube, and at the raising tube sliding downwardly while the to upper end of this cylinder pointed spring fin- Wick is being applied thereto, I employ the gers have been provided that have been forced inward bends 7 in the'spring tongues forming outwardlyinto the wick as the wick and wick latches that rest upon the upper end of the cylinder have been moved upon the air tube. air tube and hence hold the wick tube in its A device of this kind is represented in Patelevated position while the wick is being ap- I 5 out No. 14,2l8 granted February 12, 1856 to plied to the same, and when sufficient force C. Moeller. is exerted upon the rod D that is connected The present invention is made for steadyat its lower end with the wick raising cylining the Wick raising tube during the insertion der G, such wick raising cylinder is forced over the same of the wick. This is especially downwardly, the beveled lower edges of the 2o advantageous in Argand lamps where the latches causing such latches to yield and wick is of considerable diameter, for in pracspring under the force that is exerted upon tice it is found that in passing the large wick the rod D. By this construction the wick can over the wick raising cylinder such cylinder be applied to the wick raising cylinder with is frequently pushed down into the lamp and greater facility than in lamps of this class 25 it is difficult to adjust the wick around the heretofore constructed.

cylinder to bring both ends of the wick into I claim as my invention. a level position. 1. The wick raising cylinder having up- In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation wardly projecting spring tongues at the upof the wick raising cylinder with the spring per end, outwardly projecting claws at the 3o fingers thereof above the upper end of the top ends of the spring tongues and the bends air tube, and Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the 7 in such tongues forming latches to catch air and wick tube with the wick in position above the upper end of the air tube when the for use. Fig. 3. is a section at the line 0c, 00, wick raising tube is elevated for the recepof Fig. 1. tion of the wick, substantially as set forth. 35 The air tube A is connected at its bottom 2. The wick raising cylinder having slots 2 end with the reservoir, and the wick tube B in the body and backwardly proj ectingsprings i surrounding the wick forms an annular chain- 3 and upwardly projecting spring tongues at her for the reception of the wick as usual in the upper end, outwardly projecting claws at this class of lamps, and the wick raising cylthe top ends of the spring tongues and the 4o inder 0 slides upon the air tube A. This bends 7 in such tongues forming latches to wick cylinder 0 is preferably of thin sheet catch above the upper end of the air tube metal having vertical incisions 2 at suitable when the wick raising tube is elevated for the distances apart leaving intermediate springs reception of the wick, substantially as set 3, which springs are to be pressed inwardly forth. 45 to bear against the outer surface of the air Signed by me this 28th day of September,

tube with the force necessary for giving to 1892. the wick raising tube sufficient friction to pre- THOMAS HIPWELL vent it dropping or becoming misplaced under ordinary circumstances of use, and the Witnesses: 0 metal of the upper end of the wick raising J. J. WRENN,

tube is slotted leaving the spring tongues at S. D. FENNELL. 

